When United Airlines pilot started ranting about her divorce, Trump and Clinton, her passengers fled

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Passengers reportedly fled a flight before it could take off on Saturday - after a United Airlines pilot went on a bizarre rant over the intercom.

In a ball cap and casual shirt, the pilot remarked on her appearance after she boarded the flight at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, bound for San Francisco, in the late afternoon, passenger Randy Reiss wrote on Twitter.

Reiss got out of his seat, collected his bag and made for the exit. “Half the flight followed my lede,” he wrote.

“OK, if you don’t feel safe get off the airplane, but otherwise we can go,” the pilot says in the video, still cheerful, as her passengers begin to revolt.

“Did I offend you?” she says to someone in first class.

“Disarm the doors,” a flight attendant says.

Reiss posted a photo of a police officer standing by after the pilot followed her passengers back to the terminal.

Reiss wrote that she hugged him before they parted. She offered to write a book with him. She had been crying.

United Airlines did not immediately reply to questions about the incident: who the pilot was, whether she would have been allowed to fly had her passengers not fled, and whether she had been disciplined.

“We removed her from the flight,” a spokesperson for the airline told the Austin American-Statesman. “We’re going to discuss this matter with her.”

The spokesperson said a new flight crew took the plane to San Franscisco the same day - an account Reiss confirmed.

“New captain on board. Apologized. Professional,” he wrote on Twitter. “Radio silence.”